In Case You Were Wondering...

Here's where you can purchase my books that are currently available:

My latest Collection of poetry, The Hunger Season, is available through sunnyoutside.

As is So Much Is Burning.

Words For Songs Never Written: New & Collected Poems 1997-2007 is available through Centennial Press.

Down this Crooked Road is an anthology I edited with RD Armstrong of Lummox Press. It contains poetry by myself, as well as Christopher Robin, MK Chavez, Hosho McCreesh, Christopher Cunningham and Father Luke.

They may also have some copies of Any Abyss Will Do.(LRB #14)

You can also find some of these titles on Amazon and in Bay Area Bookstores, including City Lights, Modern Times, Books and Bookshelves, The Beat Museum and other fine establishments. Sometimes they turn up in the strangest places.

What I Will Soon Be Doing:

Friends,

I'm reading at two upcoming events here in San Francisco. I'm willing to bet they both will be pretty damned fun.

This Friday, Feb. 26, I will be reading along with Harmon Leon and many other entertaining folk at the Anger Management and Revenge reading series at Kaleidoscope.

And Monday, Mar. 1, I will be a part of Quiet Lightning 3 at the Elbo Room. This event also has a great lineup of readers slated to perform.

If you're in the area come on out and say hello. Have a drink or two. Support your local artistic fuckups. I would love to see you there.

Anthills V

To those of you not in the know:

The long awaited, much anticipated Anthills V
is now available from the always wonderful Centennial Press. It is a beautiful volume and contains work by myself and many amazing folks, including Amanda Oaks, Nate Graziano, Nick Osdick, Robyn Kohlwey and others. Give it a look...you won't be disappointed.

Or Maybe It's Just the Wine

The thing is, the poetry is already there.

Everyday, everywhere. You just have to know where and how to look. Or, at the very least, you have to want to try.

For some it comes easy; some are born with the ability to see. Others have to work at it. Many don't give a damn one way or another.

I believe the true poet has the ability to use words to create doors or windows or signposts that help reveal the poetry that already exists to those who, for one reason or another, might otherwise have missed it.

Words used in such a way are magic.

The problem is, so often we write stuff that we want to be poetry but it ends up just being cumbersome and unwieldy, serving only to obstruct and cheapen the poetry that already exists. Words become walls of brick and layers of concrete that bury the original beauty underneath.

Sometime the page is best left white.

That's all.

Hello And Welcome To Low Quality Video Theater

Here's a video of myself reading some of my work included in the poetry anthology Down This Crooked Road.

Also, check out the gift shop for Lummox Press. If you don't want to take the time and bother to actually read the book, you can buy a shirt or a mug or a coaster featuring the cover image. And really, what could possibly be a better holiday gift than any or all of these fine products?

Did I mention the refrigerator magnets?

Todd Moore Reviews Down This Crooked Road

Iconic Outlaw Poet Todd Moore wrote a kind review of Down This Crooked Road, the poetry anthology I recently edited with Lummox Press. It's been posted at Outlaw Poetry and Free Jazz Network. Have a look. The volume could well make someone a very nice holiday gift. (Hint, hint.)

That's all.

New Review of The Hunger Season

The good folks at Prick of the Spindle have posted a review of my latest book, The Hunger Season.

I found the review to be surpringly insightful and thoughtfully written.

You can read it here.

That's all.